knocking on heaven's door
OMG YOU GUYS! I woke up this morning, and Barack Obama was STILL the President-Elect of the United States of America. It wasn't all just an awesome dream!
I spoke with my mother this afternoon, and she was like, "I dreamt they took it away from him, so the moment I woke up, I said to your father, 'Obama is still President-Elect, right?'" And he smiled and said, 'Yes.'"
The apple don't fall far from the tree, is what I'm saying.
I'm still welling up with tears at (inappropriately, as I am at work) at random moments, as I read election coverage. I don't think I realized how personally relieved I would feel with an Obama victory - but I really do. I mean, as both a woman and a believer in individual freedoms, the past eight years have been frightening to me. I in no way feel safer than I did before 9/11, and I've felt that most of the threat came from my own government. So I guess what I'm feeling now is sheer joy and relief that the new administration will (I hope) reverse many of these infringements on our freedoms, and also treat me, as a woman, as a person in my own right - with my own rights - rather than nothing but a womb with legs repository for offspring I will never have.
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Okay, I was interrupted by work, and then spent an incredibly frustrating forty-five minutes doing my benefits enrollment - and then had the website crap out at the end, so I had to do the whole thing over again by phone.
And then I had forty-five minutes of powerpoint (oy) and they are still dithering over it, but I need to get out of here at 5:30, 'cause I have dinner plans, so they are gonna have to make any last minute edits their own selves.
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I spoke with my mother this afternoon, and she was like, "I dreamt they took it away from him, so the moment I woke up, I said to your father, 'Obama is still President-Elect, right?'" And he smiled and said, 'Yes.'"
The apple don't fall far from the tree, is what I'm saying.
I'm still welling up with tears at (inappropriately, as I am at work) at random moments, as I read election coverage. I don't think I realized how personally relieved I would feel with an Obama victory - but I really do. I mean, as both a woman and a believer in individual freedoms, the past eight years have been frightening to me. I in no way feel safer than I did before 9/11, and I've felt that most of the threat came from my own government. So I guess what I'm feeling now is sheer joy and relief that the new administration will (I hope) reverse many of these infringements on our freedoms, and also treat me, as a woman, as a person in my own right - with my own rights - rather than nothing but a womb with legs repository for offspring I will never have.
...
Okay, I was interrupted by work, and then spent an incredibly frustrating forty-five minutes doing my benefits enrollment - and then had the website crap out at the end, so I had to do the whole thing over again by phone.
And then I had forty-five minutes of powerpoint (oy) and they are still dithering over it, but I need to get out of here at 5:30, 'cause I have dinner plans, so they are gonna have to make any last minute edits their own selves.
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